Race and the Law Course Highlights Emerging Scholarship
A new class offered the chance for students to engage with emerging scholarship while addressing a broad range of issues related to race, racism, and inequality.
Home Is Here
Yale Law School faculty, alumni, and students look back at a tumultuous four years fighting for a more just immigration system.
An Interdisciplinary Look at Public Options
In their book Politics, Policy, and Public Options, Professor Anne Alstott ’87 and co-editor Ganesh Sitaraman assemble a collection of scholars from across disciplines to explore the theory of the public option.
Supporting Children and Families Through Law
Professor Anne L. Alstott ’87 has collaborated with the Yale Child Study Center on how the law might improve the mental health of children and parents through enhanced social welfare support and preventing family disruption.
Experts Release Report on Human Migration Due to Climate Change
Immigration and human rights experts from Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University Network for Human Rights have published a report on how climate change will effect the people of Central America.
SCOTUS Sides with the Amish in Case Supported by Free Exercise Clinic
The Yale Law School Free Exercise Clinic co-authored an amicus brief in support of Amish plaintiffs’ challenge of a law compelling them to use modern septic systems in violation of their religious beliefs.
Veterans Clinic Suing VA for Racial Disparity Data and Records
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Black Veterans Project and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce information the two groups requested on racial disparities in the agency’s benefits and services.
Housing Clinic Advocates for Eviction Moratorium in SCOTUS Case
The Yale Law School Housing Clinic co-authored an amicus brief filed in a Supreme Court case about the national moratorium on evictions during the pandemic. The court rejected a challenge to the moratorium, which will now stay in place for another month.